“One of the first admonitions of a good rowing coach, after the fundamentals are over, is “pull your own weight,” and the… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“They could not see the sprawling Sachsenhausen concentration camp under construction that summer just north of Berlin, where before long more than… — Daniel James Brown Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“To appreciate beauty is to experience humility—to recognize that something larger and more powerful than oneself is at work in the environment.… — Daniel James Brown Adaption Copy Share Image
What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the… — Daniel James Brown Boat Copy Share Image
“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They’re the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack.… — Daniel James Brown Life Copy Share Image
“A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman competing at the highest levels must be able to take in and consume as much as eight… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“Ebright yawned that his varsity was nothing to write home about—“a good average outfit,” — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down,” he told his daughter, Marilynn. “What matters is how many times you… — Daniel James Brown Children Copy Share Image
“It takes energy to get angry. It eats you up inside. I can't waste my energy like that and expect to get… — Daniel James Brown Stay focused Copy Share Image
“There seemed to Joe to be some kind of connection between what he was doing here among a pile of freshly split… — Daniel James Brown Beauty Copy Share Image
“Seattle’s Hooverville Northwest of downtown, in the old Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, tugboats belching plumes of black smoke nosed long rafts of… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“It is hard to make that boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy, of course, is resistance of the… — Daniel James Brown Copy Share Image
“The ability to yield, to bend, to give way, to accommodate, he said, was sometimes a source of strength in men as… — Daniel James Brown Integrity Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the… — Daniel James Brown Fundamentals Copy Share Image
“Now it came as a searing revelation that his father had not felt safe enough to live by that same simple proposition,… — Daniel James Brown Beloved son Copy Share Image
“Her father was cold and distant, more likely to cuddle the family dog than one of his own children. He believed that… — Daniel James Brown Family Copy Share Image
“Seattle sports had once risen briefly to international prominence, in 1917, when the city’s professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, became the first… — Daniel James Brown Hockey team Copy Share Image
“You will eat no fried meats,” he began abruptly. “You will eat no pastries, but you will eat plenty of vegetables. You… — Daniel James Brown Six months Copy Share Image
“All these miseries seemed compounded into a single horrific moment one misty winter morning when she turned from the woodstove with an… — Daniel James Brown Time Copy Share Image
“the Illinois Gazette, published some handy “Rules for Wives,” among them these: A good wife will always receive her husband with smiles,… — Daniel James Brown Good husband Copy Share Image
Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack.… — Daniel James Brown Balance Copy Share Image
“In a sport like this—hard work, not much glory, but still popular in every century—well, there must be some beauty which ordinary… — Daniel James Brown Beauty Copy Share Image
“The challenges they had faced together had taught them humility—the need to subsume their individual egos for the sake of the boat… — Daniel James Brown Humility Copy Share Image
